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WorksheetsSadlier Vocab Level F Unit 14
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Amenable
willing to follow advice or authority
dubious, skeptical
affliction, malady, defect
stimulating, mature
Berate
to scold sharply
tractable, flexible
yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon
praise, compliment, pat on the back
Credulous
large-scale slaughter or loss of life
lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance
to use up as result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly
inflated, pompous, bombastic
Credulous
too ready to believe, easily deceived
swollen, bloated, filled to excess
to beg earnestly and humbly
delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel
Criterion
a rule, test; a standard for judgement or evaluation
affliction, malady, defect
stubborn, unyielding
the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution
Deplete
to use up as a result of spending or consumption
lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance
a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture
a rule, test; a standard for judgement or evaluation
Expatiate
to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail
an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking or drinking, causing disgust; to feed or supply with anything to excess
delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel
too ready to believe, easily deceived
coming from the outside, foreign, present but not essential
extraneous
inception
infirmity
alacrity
the beginning, start, earliest stages of some process
inception
infirmity
jejune
obdurate
a weakness or ailment
infirmity
jejune
inception
obdurate
At the close of the novel, Pete claimed that, "the poem seems to me rather __________" in his characteristic know-it-all fashion.
jejune
extraneous
obdurate
expatiate
Before he stopped the car and we were neary late for work, I argued this point with him, but he was __________ and typically unwilling to change.
obdurate
infirmity
potpourri
sadistic
Terek's __________ of ideas were valid but seemed unrelated and therefore of no value to his legal team this morning.
potpourri
jejune
precocious
sententious
Lian's second semester report card read that "he was a __________ yet solitary boy" which seemed to make it more difficult to cultivate genuine friendships.
precocious
potpourri
jejune
infirmity
She took a __________ pleasure in tormenting him with a list of jobs from the dishes, to the bills, to the recycling, and ending with mowing the grass.
sadistic
infirmity
supplicate
surfeit
Colonel Jeffries tried to encourage his men with __________ rhetoric before they were commanded onto the beaches of Normandy, France.
sententious
sadistic
tortuous
turgid
The members of the new House Democracy __________ to be made genuine peers and not just voting members of the governmental body.
supplicated
surfeited
tortuously
turgid
Missy was embarrassed as her mom and dad made sure there was a __________ of food and drink available at her graduation party.
surfeit
supplicate
tortuous
jejune
All the vacation party complained about the muddy route being so extremely remote and __________.
tortuous
obdurate
jejune
potpourri
The Cambridge students pleaded that they not be made to read more __________ verses on the death of Prince Albert again this year.
turgid
aamenable
berate
carnage
Terek's __________ of ideas were valid but seemed unrelated and therefore of no value to his legal team this morning.
potpourri
jejune
precocious
sententious
She took a __________ pleasure in tormenting him with a list of jobs from the dishes, to the bills, to the recycling, and ending with mowing the grass.
sadistic
infirmity
supplicate
surfeit
The members of the new House Democracy __________ to be made genuine peers and not just voting members of the governmental body.
supplicated
surfeited
tortuously
turgid
All the vacation party complained about the muddy route being so extremely remote and __________.
tortuous
obdurate
jejune
potpourri
Credulous
large-scale slaughter or loss of life
lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance
to use up as result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly
inflated, pompous, bombastic
